The pitches

At the European Startup Festival we have start-ups pitching in three stages: idea, start-up, growth. You can see the pitching start-ups, the judges and investors who attend the event below.

La Scuola Possibile

La Scuola Possibile (The Possible School) is the Design and Innovation School blending Italian Renaissance with Silicon Valley, empowering a new generation of ethical leaders with the needed skills for job readiness and contemporary opportunities.It is an open lab and a digital platform, producing innovation in education and developing a
disruptive, transformational and original learning system.It offers an integrated and comprehensive kindergarten through twelfth grade educational program, for a balanced acquisition of academics, experiential knowledge and twenty-first century skills needed to thrive in the ever-changing contemporary society.

The socio-economic model of the Digital Information Age, the globalized market, the new organization of labor and the companies’ competitiveness in the twenty first century, compel us to completely rethink the set of knowledge and skills at the center of the the educational systems and continuous learning strategies.

Traditional schools have been carrying on teaching according to the needs of the industrial marketplace, by using rigid and standardized systems that are opposed to the muchdebated and desired customization of the learning process, to the acquisition of contemporary skills, such as divergent thinking and creativity, to the enhancement of the full human potential and to the development of an original personal voice.

La Scuola Possibile is therefore conceived as a response to needs that increasingly emerge from society and the contemporary job market being at the cutting edge of innovation in the field of education worldwide.

MovoGelato

MovoGelato, by Gelato Club, is built on tradition with modern technology. It started to disrupt an historical oxymoron in the gelato industry: to be able to prepare an “Industrial Artisanal” Gelato, Italian Grade. After three years of technology and process development, Gelato Club is patenting a solution that can do to “incumbent” gelato shops what “mobile” did to “fixed” lines. The long shelf life of its stable liquid preparation eliminates 80% of the activities performed in a “gelateria” (gelato shop) where an “Artisanal Gelato, Italian Grade” is prepared. This process and cost simplification enables the scale up of a Movo gelateria business model, opening the possibility of bringing this high quality, happiness generating product, virtually anywhere. Furthermore, the simplicity of the gelato preparation offers interesting opportunities for end customer too.

Empireo

Aiko

AIKO is a SME founded in 2017 in Torino and registered in the list of innovative Italian companies.Research-oriented SME, its main focus is the development of Artificial Intelligence software to increase the level of autonomy of space missions. Key areas of expertise are Deep Learning, Expert Systems and Embedded Software design applied to space missions, in the domains of autonomous decision-making, payload data management, failure detection and mission replanning.Composed by a team of highly skilled researchers, boosting years of experience in space projects, including two CubeSats launched and operated, publications on international journals and congresses and collaborations with some of the most prominent research institutes, such as ESA, NASA JPL, MIT. Collaborates with European and US research institutions and companies to provide state of the art mission autonomy algorithms.The in-orbit validation for AIKO product and proprietary technology, MiRAGE, is planned by 2020.

DUNNO

DUNNO is the slang word for "I don't know" and this is why we had choosen it, because we don't know what to do. But we know very well how to do it.DUNNO is a design start-up that, helped by the hi-tech and psychology fields, creates mass-producted, but unique and tailored products.The use of psychology evaluations, artificial intelligence data, parametric design softwares and 3D printing techology will help in the process.WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT WE KNOW HOW TO TO IT.

Orway

Orway is a technology company founded by veterans of the biometric industry, which brought about the whole set of required competencies in R&D, market vision, and business management. Orway was established as a visionary response to the market's need for a biometric authentication technology that is characterized by strong anti-spoofing protection and the highest level of identification. An early start gave Orway an important advance of 2 to 3 years to stay ahead of competitors. Enormous and unique expertise allows a response to other ongoing requests of the biometric market for new products and thus diversifies what Orway has to offer.

Wego

Nailtronics

Nailtronics is an Izmir, Turkey based startup poised to disrupt the wearable human-machine interface market with its artificial fingernail-based zero encumbrance “Nailtronic Commander” product, currently under development.
Nailtronics will initially target the nascent Augmented/Virtual reality sector as well as the more traditional Mobile Device and PC Gaming sectors. Market exploration is on-going in other sectors such as prosthetic device control and other adaptive uses. A patent has been applied for with the United States Patent Office for the technology.

Pando Festival

Providing Support For Looking After Ourselves and Each Other.
Who Are We?
Pando Festival is an arts and music event passionate about meeting the needs of the people and the planet, it was conceptualised in response to contemporary global challenges.
As MSc graduates in sustainability, we have support from leaders in events industry & experts in sustainability with the aim to deliver an inclusive, accessible music festival of true openness and understanding. We love our planet and want to showcase our passion in innovative ways, providing an experience that is as kind to the environment as it is to people. The festival will be run on renewable or green energy, with an aim of zero-waste to landfill. This will be achieved using a circular economy (reuse, recycle or re-manufacture) approach to waste whilst working with ethical supply chains throughout, without detracting from any enjoyment one expects from a traditional music festival experience.
Our aim is to break down the barriers & stigmas around the subject of mental health. We want people to understand that it is okay to talk about these issues and challenges that a lot of us struggle with.
Together with experts in various fields, we plan to put on quality workshops & talks that will promote your well-being and ad value to your life.

Sità Scotè

Sità Scotè is a documentary, a musical album and a social project.
Groups of musicians make stories of life linked to suburb districts of Turin and write songs about it.
The "Sità Scoté" project was founded in autumn 2017 with the aim of promoting social inclusion and youthful protagonism in the suburbs of Turin through music.

Know How

Know How is a virtual place where knowledge is shared to seize real business opportunities. If you have a specific expertise or are an expert in one of the many professional areas including: economic, legal, technical or scientifc you can turn to Knower. Knower - is a Know How advisor, for people in search of answers to their questions. Know How is an iOS and Android app where you can ask questions to obtain answers for free, without geographical borders or any number of limitations to your queries. We are not a bills comparator, or a fees visualizer: our goal is to match people, with a problem, to experts with the solution, selected for their skills. Every question will be sent to a group of ten Knowers, but only one can respond and participate in a private conversation. Every user can send text and vocal messages, pictures or documents.

Pharmercure

Pharmercure is your pharmacy at home. We provide home delivery services of drugs and every kind of product purchasable in a pharmacy, linking customer and pharmacist in a better way. We offer an alternative to every people who have difficulties in reaching the pharmacy, due to mobility issue, lack of time, emergency situation or any other reason. We grant the possibility to order via web or telephone selecting products, pharmacy and preferences, receiving shortly after the order directly when you want. The company was founded in Turin at the beginning of 2018 by 7 young students with different backgrounds and it’s currently backed from many different investors, supported by important advisors and we have partnerships with big companies, associations and national institutions.

BEF Biosystems

Organic waste from the transformation of agri-food products is not only a cost but also a waste of nutritional value … it is food that is thrown away.
Reintroducing food waste into the food chain is a key challenge these days and BEF Biosystems was set up with the aim of addressing this issue... with the help of insects.
The larvae of some insects can be used to feed on this waste carrying out a bioconversion process of the nutrients. At the end of their development cycle, these larvae become high-protein food for pets, chickens and fish, as a natural and sustainable alternative to fishmeal, which is widely used in the production of feed.
At the same time, insects and bioconversion derivatives can be used to produce soil improvers, chemical components and biopolymers.
BEF Biosystems operates in this new industrial sector, with an innovative technology designed to be placed placed in farms with Biogas plants.
This innovation can reduce waste, lower expenses for companies which must dispose of it, as well as reducing the importation of feed with all the resulting environmental.

NoVisLab

Yolélé

Yolélé is a purpose-driven African food company. Our goal is to improve lives and per capita income in rural West Africa.
At Yolélé, we’re sharing Africa’s oldest cultivated grain, fonio, with the world. Fonio is a delicious, gluten-free, quick cooking grain. Yolélé is a term of exuberance used throughout West and Central Africa, which, roughly translated from Fulani, means “Let the good times roll.” By increasing fonio production, sourcing from smallholder farms, and offering an exciting new ancient grain to the world, we can truly help make the good times roll!

Viviana Bono – TANDANS

TANDANS - a creativity-powered production system for creatives
We envisage the potential of creating botteghe 4.0 (4.0 workshops), where artisans, enterprises, and designers work together to build artifacts according to careful, classical know-how, while supported by modern tools.
TANDANS is a production system that has:

A brain, the Cyber apprentice (Cya). Cya is an Artificial Intelligence that captures the spirit of the time and does trend analysis in a novel way, basing on meaning in addition to statistics.

A heart, a virtual working place to foster collaborations among different stakeholders.

Arms, to reach out the world, offering the artifacts by means of a glocal marketplace (from local production to global reality).

A backbone, a blockchain-based one, to help supporting intellectual property and traceability of artifacts.

ARIA

Each year outdoor air pollution causes 3 million deaths. Due to the increasing urbanization phenomenon they will increase by 50% in 2040. Anthropic activities contribute the most to lower air quality. The main causes are: vehicular traffic, domestic heating, industries, agricultural activities and natural events.
Nowadays, several macro solutions are available to mitigate the effect of pollutants, i.e. wind energy, solar panels and carbon capture devices. Yet, these solutions are not able to solve the long-standing issue independently. To increase their effectiveness it is necessary to link them to the environmental microstructure.
ARIA does that by providing real-time data about pollutants through a pool of proprietary sensors installed on mobile and fixed infrastructures in order to assess the air quality in the entire urban area. PM2.5 and PM10 measurements are integrated with other types of data, such as ground temperature, weather conditions and traffic flows.
The analysis carried out by ARIA does not result only in the detailed and real-time measurements of air pollutants, but also in the recognition of their sources thanks to the integration of ML algorithms and fluid-dynamic models. ARIA offers important insights to public institutions and private companies. In particular, the data become truly valuable for municipalities investing on the right solution to improve air quality, as a basis for complex decision making under critical conditions, such as pollution peaks.

Martina Mantoan – Beautic

Beautic is the first beauty marketplace app providing a new shopping experience.
It’s a community where users can buy and earn money by sharing their beauty looks.
It’s an app where make up addicted can discover a tagged look, fall in love with a product, and buy it.
We are developing a technology that measures the social value of influencers: it’s social marketing in a natural, organic way, where real people share their experiences with products and brands, and users have the opportunity to share their creativity and inspire other people.

Giacomo Golinelli – Archivi.st

Online culture is an iceberg: only a little percentage of information is visible on the internet and it didn't come to light for the reliability of the source. If it is a problem with the news, it is a disaster for education. Archivi.st is an app that helps students and teachers find and use, in a simple and secure way, only authentic and certified sources: the contents of the Historical Archives.

Christine Michaelis

Christine Michaelis is a Business Coach, author, public speaker and workshop facilitator. She has worked in marketing and advertising for more than 10 years before she decided to start her own business as a Marketing and Creative Start-Up Coach. Now she is mentoring start-up students at universities throughout Europe as well as working with individuals and small businesses. With her hands-on approach, she has helped hundreds of individuals validating their business idea and creating a successful start-up. She is also the founder of the Creative Start-Up Academy, online courses for start-ups and small businesses and founder. With her project to create the first Digital Nomad Town in the world, she is hoping to save a little town in Sardinia from dying out. Helping to create a sustainable community that offers everything that a Digital Nomad needs and wants. The bigger vision is to go into other small depopulating areas in Europe and building a network of Digital Nomad Towns.

Jordi Vidiella – Opportumeety

There is a new way to network and engage, Opportumeety is a social mobility networking platform to take advantage of your idle time while traveling around the world and to network with purpose. We offer Opportumeety for events; a tool to extend the length of your attendees before and after the event.

Chetan Dhakan

Any scientists or doctors working in the field of radiology has experienced the pain and distress of sifting through articles, papers, radiological products through the use of Pubmed, Google scholar or researchgate. The end-result would be lots of papers or products and waste of time and money to find a worthy paper for their research. All of these search engines are good with keywords but bad with relevance. As a life scientist, I have experienced the same problem searching through different papers one by one. Hence, My idea is to use Machine Learning to provide them with better filters and excellent precision, to aggregate all relevant data with more comprehensive results, use AI to decode full text and images and enable smart searching and filtering for speedy research in the field of radiology. My mission is to help fellow scientists and doctors to find and facilitate their groundbreaking imaging research.

Weevil

Mariafebronia Sciacca

Mariafebronia Sciacca, PhD. Since 2010 she has been working for 2i3T Incubator with special tasks in Project Coordination, Dissemination and Scouting activities, Business Planning and Startups generation and Project coordination and Development Strategy. Previously engaged in international organizations context in commercial area and foreign sales management for multinational companies.She supports entrepreneurs in the Business Model definition, Market analysis; Financial forecast e Intellectual Property Management.
She obtained in 2013 Ph.D in “Business & Management”, at the Department of Management of Università degli Studi di Torino with a doctoral thesis on Academic linkages with Industry and Entrepreneurship and in 2009 Master Degree in General Management at University “Luiss Guido Carli” – Rome.

Filippo Nardi-Dei

Filippo is currently working as a Dealflow Specialist at Siamosoci, the italian marketplace for ventures. His job involves selecting and supporting startups for their fundraising through Mamacrowd, the leading Italian equity crowdfunding platform powered by Siamosoci. Filippo is also involved in the portfolio management of Siamosoci's investment vehicles.

Massimo Temporelli

Massimo Temporelli is 40 years old physicist and is a former curator at the National Museum of Science and Technology ‘‘Leonardo da Vinci’’ in Milan. He is now a entrepreneur and a private consultant in the field industrial culture: tv, radio, museums and pubblishing. He works in Sky and Rai as a tv conductor and his last book was “Innovatori, Come pensano le persone che cambiano il mondo” (Hoepli Editore), about history of invention and innovation. He is the president and co-founder of TheFabLab, a digital fabrication lab in Milan. In 2016, he was the winner of “Federico Faggin Innovation Award.

Matteo Ordanini

Graduated in Conservation science, he was science and technology explainer at MUST museum. He coordinates now research and training activities of TheFabLab’s Learning Centre, an innovative start-up that collaboratively designs and develops new products and services. He teaches digital technologies and methodologies at NABA. Passionate about technology and innovation.

Enrico Castellano

A graduate in Electronic Engineering, Enrico for a short period was dedicated to study and research activities in the Telecommunications sector, first with the European Space Agency and then with the Polytechnic of Turin. He then developed his career in Accenture (previously Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting), in the group of Partners that since the late 80s have contributed to the growth in Italy of the great consulting, technology and services company. In particular, he has collaborated in the transformation of important companies (first of durable goods production, then telecommunications), devoting himself to the innovation of management control practices and to the efficiency of back-office structures. After retiring in 2005, he dedicated himself to a series of investments, both “profit” and “non-profit”, mainly focused in his local community (particularly in the sectors of hospitality and culture) and, from 2007, to stary-up investing, having been one of the co-founders of Italian Angels for Growth business angel group.

Guilhem Ricci

Guilhem Ricci is a senior investment partner at Quadia, a Geneva based impact investment fund which sponsors companies that are inventing a regenerative economy and driving global sustainability priorities.
Prior to joining Quadia he co-led Groupe AD Education, one of the leading group for art and design private education in France and Europe where he was involved in several board and scientific committees in relation with design education including at IAAD.

Stefano Molino

Stefano is Partner at Innogest SGR SpA, where is currently in charge of the digital practice and focuses on deal selection, transaction management, contract negotiation and closing of new investment opportunities. He is board member/observer in several companies such as CornerJob (leading European HR marketplace), Digital Magics (digital Italian incubator/accelerator listed at AIM stock exchange), Supermercato24 (leading Italian online grocery marketplace), Soulkitchen (B2B food delivery service for professional restoration segment) Armadio Verde (secondhand clothes marketplace), Prestiamoci (peer-to-per lending platform), Agroils Technologies (biofuels and proteins-based productions). He has been member/observer in companies such as Silicon Biosystems (medical device, sold to Menarini Group), Beintoo (mobile marketing), HT Srl (Cybersecurity) and Mobango (leading independent app store sold to Mauj Mobile).
Before joining Innogest, Stefano was Investment Manager at Piemonte High Technology, a seed VC investment firm specializing in investments in hi-tech start-up companies.
Stefano has held several university and post-university master courses, mainly on entrepreneurship, finance and innovation. He holds a Master of Science (summa cum laude) in Engineering & Management from Polytechnic University in Turin and received a Ph.D from Polytechnic University in Milan, with a doctoral thesis on Venture Capital and valuation of hi-tech companies assets.

Marco Cantamessa

Marco Cantamessa is Full Professor at the Department of Management and Production Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches Management of Innovation and Product Development. He has had lecturing appointments at European universities and business schools such as EPFL, SIMT, ESCP and has authored more than one hundred papers in the fields of manufacturing systems engineering and of management of innovation.
He is a member of INFORMS, PDMA and the Strategic Management Society. He has been founding member of The Design Society, serving on the Board of Management from 2000 to 2005, and on the Advisory Board from 2006 to 2017.
He has served on the boards of numerous institutions engaged in entrepreneurship and technology transfer. Between 2008 and 2017, he has been Chairman of the Board and CEO of I3P, the startup incubator of Politecnico di Torino, which is one of the leading university incubators in Europe. From 2014 to 2016, he has been President of PNICube, the Italian association of university incubators, and currently serves on its Board. More recently, he has been nominated non-executing chairman of Neva Finventures S.p.A., the corporate venture capital arm of the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank, and of Compagnia Valdostana delle Acque S.p.a., a leading renewable energy company in Italy.

Giancarlo Rocchietti

Giancarlo Rocchietti is an entrepreneur.
In 1980 he founded Euphon, which become the leading independent operator in the multimedia industry in Italy with a preeminent position in Spain. He listed the company on the Italian stock exchange in 2000.
Giancarlo decided to sell Euphon to a private equity investor in 2004.
He has been the President of Sviluppo Italia Piemonte, a regional government agency and then appointed President of Piemontech, the first regional government seed capital fund in Italy.
Today Giancarlo is investing in renewable energy and in start ups, as a business angel. He is the founder and President of Club degli Investitori, the largest regional business angels network in Italy.

Giulio Montoli

Half Japanese and half Italian. , one of the first employees of LVenture and ENLABS. In late 2012 he worked on LVenture Group IPO procedures and now he is the Head of the acceleration programs LUISS ENLABS in Milan and Rome. In 2017 he has been selected to be part of the selection of the top 100 Italians under 30 by Forbes for the Venture Capital industry. He has followed more than 60 startups through their go to market phase bringing them from an alpha pre-seed stage to their first seed round helping them creating a customer base and generate their first revenues.

Philippa Martinelli

Philippa is an angel investor, business consultant and corporate innovation advisor. Her career has spanned Financial Services, International Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Startup Investment and Ecosystem Development. With FINTECH Circle she helps businesses and individuals adapt to rapidly changing industries and new technologies through the FINTECH Circle Institute and Innovate programs. She maintains her strong links to Asia, built during her time at Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong. As an investor she focuses predominantly on MedTech, SaaS and Impact business models.

Mattia Carluccio

Degree in Economics - University of Turin. Digital serial entrepreneur, Angel Investor, particularly interested in digital food, sports, platforms and communities. Expert in strategies, product development and digital project management. Among the various initiatives he founded MyTable - online restaurant reservation platform - sold to TripAdvisor after 4 years of activity.

Guido Meak

Guido earned his Master’s Degree at the London School of Economics on a scholarship issued by the Italian Government, and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in 1999, at the peak of the Internet hype. He founded two tech companies before turning twenty-eight, and three in total: in Italy, Ireland, and the USA. The largest of these companies became an international e-commerce enabler with offices in four countries and a team of 50 people from 15 different nationalities. Guido lived in Silicon Valley for 4 years and closed funding rounds with investors from Italy, Switzerland and the US. As a recognized pioneer in his field, he introduced concepts to the European market that are now tech standards, including the idea of end-to-end e-commerce outsourcing. In addition to his passion for technology, Guido has been a successful athlete: he raced with the Italian National Ski Team and represented his country over two seasons at the Europa Cup.

Russell Copley

Russell Copley is owner and Director of Greenborough Management, a business development and project management company with a team of eight across central England, founded fifteen years ago. He is also Chief Executive of the East Midlands Incubation Network; Regional Manager of Angels Den (Europe’s largest network of business angels); and has been managing a number of business support initiatives across England in recent years, including the Lincolnshire Investment Network (LIN) and a range of various grant funds. He has worked with a large number of companies to help them to raise investment from business angels and equity funds. In addition to helping others, Russell is also a private equity investor having invested in a few early stage businesses himself.
He is currently the Chair of the Regional Advisory Board of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, a new £250M debt and equity “fund of funds” designed to support business growth across the midlands region of the UK.

Andrew Hutchison

Andrew is co-founder of Aethon Partners (AP), the trusted partner to entrepreneurs throughout their entire funding journey. AP provides structured programmes and tailored support to entrepreneurs seeking capital to accelerate their business ventures. Andrew was previously Head of Strategy at Virgin StartUp, the entrepreneurial hub of the Virgin Group. Among other responsibilities, Andrew was solely responsible for the creation, planning, and execution of Virgin StartUp's equity crowdfunding accelerator (CrowdBoost). Prior to Joining Virgin, Andrew worked as an investment professional at growth equity investor Summit Partners, where he focused on finding and investing in exceptional entrepreneurs from a range of sectors. In addition, Andrew previously worked at investment bank Robert W. Baird, where he advised European private equity firms and their portfolio companies on investments, acquisitions or sales across a range of sectors. Andrew graduated with First Class Honours in Business Management and Economics from the University of Glasgow. Andrew is an international Scot, having lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and Australia.